tribes live as they have lived for
hundreds, maybe thousands of
years. It's the choice of the
Flecheiros and theirs alone to
take the first step toward us
if they want to know us. Thank
you for opening a window to an
Earth still wild, still untamed.
JENNY FRIEDL
Pfarrkirchen,Germany
Perhaps some of the Flecheiros
would prefer something different
from squatting around a fire and
eating, as the article's author,
Scott Wallace, describes in On
National Geographic Magazine, PO Box
98199, Washington, DC 20090-8199,
or by fax to 202-828-5460, or via the
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and daytime telephone. Letters may be
edited for clarity and length.
Assignment, "tough" monkey
meat in a "stinky" broth. Modern
civilization has its benefits.
VIVIAN LEE ELLINGSON
Apache Junction,Arizona
I am quite sure that the Flechei
ros can come out and look for us
if they want to. We should learn
a lesson from what happened to
Australia's Aborigines and New
Zealand's Maori! After contact,
the Flecheiros will be aban
doned. Leave them alone.
MARIUCCIA ALCOCK
Ipswich, England
What disturbed me the most
about the short sidebar story,
"After First Contact," was the
Korubo's practice of infanticide.
Then I realized that my Christian
values were clouding my ability
to objectively draw conclusions
about these people. Because
their culture is so radically dif
ferent from mine, their tradi
tions seem savage and brutish
when viewed through the moral
lens of modern Christianity. It
might be humbling to consider
that only a few hundred years
ago Christians were burning
people alive because they
thought they were witches.
JUAN CASERO
Hialeah, Florida
The article focused on Sydney
Possuelo's mission to protect
the Flecheiros, one of the few
remaining uncontacted tribes in
the world, and it noted that out
siders can have (and have had)
devastating effects on such pop
ulations. By publishing the
article in your widely read maga
zine, including a map showing
the location of the tribe,
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